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As I made the snow blower 3.0 with management on Bluetooth with smartphone Android

It is the shortest history of time of transformation of the robot lawn-mower into the DIY snow blower with management on Bluetooth with phone Android.

It is already the third version of the snow blower. I made the first option of the fighting robot. The second option from a lawn-mower which I prepare for tender. Video with the short presentation of these "products" already was on Geektimes, also in a spoiler in the bottom of a post.

Current construction of the robot very simple. Snow is skimmed by a scraper. The low layer is thrown out from under the snow blower sideways. As the power unit serves the internal combustion engine from the 0.9 h.p. manual lawn-mower. Running engines are a motor reducers from window wipers VAZ. DVS twists the screw. The air flow and mechanical influence of the screw lifts snow from a surface and on an air duct discards aside. The skirt around the snow blower does not allow snow to scatter in the parties. Shurupovanny rubber significantly improves passability of the unit.

Management

Management on Bluetooth with phone Android. Arduino nano+Monster Motor Shield+Bluetooth HC-06 Bluetooth HC-06 works at 3:3é, i.e. it is necessary for the correct work to make conversion of the logic levels. Without it the scheme will work, but there can be problems. Concerning Monster Motor Shield there are a lot of controversial issues, someone claimed that big percent of defects. This payment very much is pleasant to me because it holds current to 30A.

Arduino

For data acquisition from Bluetooth HC-06 I used Software Serial to leave a possibility of debugging via the terminal on hardware Serial port. It, in particular, was required to trace what data we obtain from Arduino. In the elementary sketch we check acquired character on Bluetooth and we turn on the driver of engines.

Andoid

InterfaceLogic of operation of application The application sends every second a code of the current combination of pushed buttons by bluetooth.

"S" — stop

"F" — forward

"B" — back

"L" — to the left

"R" — to the right

"I \— forward and to the right

"G" — forward and to the left

"H" — back and to the right

"J" — back and to the left

Management is possible both by means of clicking of keys, and by means of a gyroscope. Functionality of the application rather trivial, but it is enough.

Video

Video Snow blower 1.0 and 2.0

Time goes, and it is necessary to train in control of robots. I decided not to waste time before the following fights of Bronebot and before tender of robots lawn-mowers. I attached a scraper to the fighting robot, worked over increase of friction of wheels, by modification of a protector a little, put a special signal.

P.S.: The following project is the independent underwater robot. I prepare for tender X-Prize. :). Link. It was necessary to save up $2000.

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